A Railway Express Agency truck, along with a cart with milk cans, transfers express into a messenger car, while in the background, mail bags are loaded and unloaded from an RPO car along the Monon in 1948.
Photo by Linn Westcott
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| Last updated on August 7, 2025
A Railway Express Agency truck, along with a cart with milk cans, transfers express into a messenger car, while in the background, mail bags are loaded and unloaded from an RPO car along the Monon in 1948.
Photo by Linn Westcott
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That’s the funniest looking R.p.O. I’ve ever seen!!!!
Wrong caption or wrong picture!!
So you’re telling me that the Monon used hoppers for hauling the mail?
Lotta changes goin’ on ……. ???
Wonderful as things continue to crumble. Either wrong photo or wrong
caption.